--hiv/aids speculation( a serious cure)--

i hear the cure for hiv/aids is months away( a headline i read on yahoo), this great news got me thinking about someone i lost not long ago...

  many years past, when my mother was still with us, we had a conversation about her work, and the tougher part of her job...she was a hospice care provider, and stayed with many that had this aliment, until the end( hiv/aids)...she said it was a tough way to pass, and, knowing i was a clever boy( perhaps), she asked what i thought the future cure would be...i thought about it, weighing all i had heard, read online, ect...this is the answer i conveyed to my mother at that time--

 the puzzle--

  in the case of hiv/aids, i feel we are engaged in a a deadly game of "bio-chess", of sorts, the key to the issue( in my opinion), lies not, in directly killing the virus...but instead, is about eliminating the ability of the cell to procreate, to do this, we must understand the nature of the cell's reproduction, essentially, the cell must land on another healthy cell, to "take-it-over", and make another aids virus...

  reproduction cessation dynamics--

  as in the case of polio, and it's conclusion( via the injection of a large number of "dead" viruses), i suggest, that hiv/aids might be handled similarly, by reducing it to an "inert cell", that is unable to procreate/multiply( leaving the cell to wander the body, without any ill-effects, until it expires)... i feel that the means to produce this situation( a viable cure), may be to target the "landing legs" of the virus, and, i believe this goal might be accomplished via an injection, of a large quantity of these "landing legs", that are on the surface of the aids virus, into the infected patient...in this way, anti-bodies might be generated by the body, as a reaction to the resulting infection, that specifically target these "landing-legs"...once these new "landing-leg anti-bodies" had eliminated the initial, large number of "landing-legs" injected( marking them as "foreign-bodies", to the resulting anti-bodies), they might likely continue to hunt/search, the entire body, for any remaining landing legs...and, taa-daa...more would be found...on the aids/hiv virus's exterior surfaces...making them targets for these new anti-bodies, that were created to destroy "landing-legs"...whether the anti-bodies kill the cell outright, or merely dissolved/damaged the landing legs, on the hiv/aids virus's exterior, the results would remain the same, a dead, or inert, virus...that will not produce a new one...check-mate, the end--


  "designer anti-bodies"--

   it occurred to me today, that the concept above, may lead to a different future for medicine, if it becomes a reality...in the case of hiv/aids, there are many "variants" of the hiv/aids virus, making the task of providing a "universal cure"( derived from modern medicine),unlikely...to counter this issue, i suggest that the practice of creating anti-bodies that only "seek-and-destroy" part of the offending virus( that the patient needs to eliminate), to obtain a "cure", is of great use...the patient would need to give a blood sample, to allow the specific virus that they have, to be examined, allowing the doctor to know, the exact protein structure, of the landing legs of their virus...

  generating "viral-bits"--

  once the physician is aware of the protein structure of the "landing legs"( in the case of hiv/aids), or other "key-viral component", of the exact virus the physician would like to destroy...they must be "cultured", in some way...perhaps the famous gentlemen in japan( charles gunner is an american example of this type of craftsmen ), that can write "kanji characters" with a microscope( super-small), would be kind enough to splice a few thousand legs off some hiv/aids viruses, in a petri-dish, for us( i mentioned this very thing to my mother the day she asked about curing the hiv/aids virus...she laughed, so did i...we both doubted he was available)...anyway, a means to generate the desired portions of the virus to be injected( "landing-legs" in the case of hiv/aids), to generate the needed anti-bodies( that selectively target a specific virus) is needed...and i am not aware of a method of doing so, at this time...

 a word of caution--

  a short walk, and a bag of chips, gave me pause, in regards to "designer anti-bodies", and their future uses...here is a little metaphor, to make my worries clear--

a cautionary tale--

  if you teach the scariest thing in the forest, to kill the wolves, that hunt the sheep you are raising, beware...upon releasing this hell, you may find yourself doing without every, single, thing, with two ears and a tail...that even looks remotely like a wolf...have you seen my sheep-dog??...

 the point--

  careful study may be needed, to be sure anti-bodies are not introduced into a patient that damage more cells than the ones you are trying to eliminate, as we see in the story above..."not a wolf in sight, or any sheep-dogs either"--

summary--

   without the drain of the hiv/aids virus depleting the immune system of viable red blood cells, i believe it would recover( proper levels of blood cells would be regained, rapidly), and the subject would be "cured'...


  --i feel this B.S., is very good B.S., fit for a conversation with your doctor, and nothing more...

  best wishes, and god bless....john kruschke--

--condensation/dew formation correlations--

   this morning i was asked why condensation forms, from a curious little person...here goes--



the deal--

  a car's exterior( or a blade of grass), cools slowly during the night( no sun to warm it), and at dawn, the sun's rays, "heat-up" the air, very quickly...the car/blade of grass, does not "heat-up" so quickly, causing a "temperature-differential" in the "thermal-halo"( for more about "thermal-halos", see my "        " post), around the car...causing water-vapor to drop out of suspension, in the air closest to the car, leaving "dew"( h20), as a remainder...

note--

 --( the term "thermal-halo" describes the small gap of air, between an object, and "room-temperature", where the object's "temp", and "room-temp", merge, and the small variation between them exchanges, until they equalize, as closely as possible)--


 putting a finer point on things( at the molecular level)--

  i believe i can describe the process of "dew formation/condensate", veery precisely...

    on the molecular level, i feel that my post "          ", within this blog, best describes the situation...essentially, air molecules moving at a certain speed( say, "10" as a random value), encounter the outer "halo" of air around an object, with a temp of "4", the "thermal-difference" between them, exchanges, within the "halo", until the object is almost "10", and the "thermal-halo" is a value of "10"...with this in mind...we can see, that if moisture/water-vapour( h20), is in suspension, while colliding at a rate of "10", and is then suddenly introduced into a different atmosphere, colliding at a rate of "4", the air molecules that were moving at a speed of "ten", can no longer hold their water vapour aloft, at this slower rate of travel...at this time, a compromise is made( the air molecules drop "ballast", namely the water, and things proceed without it), this exchange, leaves the remainder we call "water-vapour/dew"...a nice thing, found regularly on the side of soda cans, in the summer, and on blades of grass, spring till fall...around the globe( much to the delight of walt whitman)--

 best wishes, john kruschke--

--the endless canteen--

  i have an invention in the works, that i call "the endless canteen"( a canteen that never gets empty...refilling itself...with pure, fresh water...indefinitely...or, until something breaks on it...i am thinking of utilizing a "hand-crank", battery recharge system)--     serious...

--private--

--presenters( still looking )--

   i have the notion, that many of these posts would be cool subject matter, to present to serious professionals, in various fields of study/commerce...to me, having the right person, to present an idea properly, is so very important( put your best foot forward, and the better one, right behind that...)--

an example--

  i have a person in mind, to present my opinions about stonehenge( those little rocks, that have been standing on the other side of the pond from america, since forever), i hope that she is inclined to present the concepts to a few persons in london, there are many posts( so she could present more), as for the remaining posts, i have others in mind for those...also, a narrator for this blog, to make it available to the blind, would mean a lot to me( carl segan??)...we shall see, i feel the idea has merit, perhaps i can persuade a few friends to become involved, after i have finished writing this next book( "digital doodles and mind-farts")...due to be released very soon--

  best wishes to all, john kruschke--

--synthetic tendon simulation/replacement( strengthening "in-tandom")--

  i noticed something while i was getting a hot coco, in one of our local emergency rooms the other day( they have the best hot coco, for under a buck, and i believe it helps support the er...), anyway, here are my thoughts about it--

  the skinny--

   a nice lady had a fall on the way out the door that day, she was examined, and then helped up, immediately by their emt's, but, they had trouble getting her seated in the wheel chair...i noticed( at that moment), that her knee was "hyper-extended", causing her to be unable to bend her knee, to sit down...i pondered the issue, and felt that the "hyper-extended" knee, probably caused the fall to start with...begging the question, why was it "hyper-extending" in the first place???, i suggest, that the situation may have stemmed from her being over-weight, as this condition is hard on the knees( if this is correct, it may not have been the first time a "hyper-extension" occurred)...bringing us to the ultimate question...what to do about future falls, from a little miss-step, that propagates an injury, and creates more long-term trauma??...as far as i know, even professional athletes, in today's modern medical-miracle world, whom can afford to pay anything, are unable to really solve this issue...

 a solution( for medical professionals to ponder)--

  i thought at first, a cable that would stop the knee from traveling backwards to far, might work...but unfortunately, the body's natural tendon, does not work that way, due to( in my opinion), the need for the "slack", of the anchor( tendon), to be "taken-up", during the full range of movement in the joint...so, what to do??, when i was young, living in rural america, we younger types( children), would play with "sling-shots"...made from a hand-hold, and two "rubber tubes"(to power the "sling")...i suggest, that one of these "tubes", from a modern "sling-shot", could be attached "in-tandom" with the original damaged tendon, on the back side of the knee( or other joint), to limit the undesirable travel in the joint, that causes the "hyper-extension"...these tubes are rubber i believe( hypo-allergenic), and are incredibly strong( i know, from extended study, during grade school)...so, i feel this concept may solve the puzzle, of how to "simulate" a tendon, or mount a "cable" to the joint( to stop unwanted movement, and "hyper-extensions"), one that will retract, and expand, as the joint goes through it's natural range of movement--

summary--

  how to attach a synthetic tendon( screws??), where, and at what tension( or, what diameter of tubing is best??), is a puzzle for folks working in hospitals to determine...

 note--

 something else to ponder...perhaps, a veery small steel cable, could be put inside the tube, to create a "stop", of sorts??, as i feel that a small enough steel cable, placed inside the tube, with a "loop" in the center, may retract with the tubing it resides in, creating an extremely strong joint...in any case, i hope this concept yields a few less hazardous steps for someone, or, possibly a return to professional sports for a "pro-athlete"--

  --i feel that this B.S. , is good B.S. , and may be something good to start a conversation with your doctor about...and nothing more--

  best wishes, john kruschke--

--a nod to the queen( a re-discovered system)--

   the kings system( her majesty's at present)--

   if she so desired, i feel that the queen, or one of her many subjects, might be able to plot the position of a dwelling( or other structure), from the silhouette of "the-tower-of-london bridge"...this "wonder-of-the-world's" silhouette, looks to match a chair's-back, that was made in the same period...i believe a person erecting a home, or other garrison, likely aligned a chair's back( or many chair's backs) to the tower-bridge's silhouette, and...taa-daaa, right angles were obtained, that were "square", or parallel, to the monolith, allowing easy creation of a roadway to the structure, that would not intertwine, or merge, with other roads( making things orderly)...this method would be extremely effective with a chair at each corner, giving nice "right-angles" on the interior of the structure, to measure from, for the purpose of following "blue-prints", to the letter( i have not derived the exact type/maker of the chair yet, more study is needed)--

note--

   the old english song, that goes..."london bridge is falling down, falling down, my fair lady"...seems to make a bit more sense to me now, if london bridge were to fall, a "lady in waiting's" future husband, would not be able to construct her a suitable home to live in( a dwelling that is not square, with a horrible road going to it)...definitely a cause for tears...making the song, more of a ladies "scary-little-hymn", than a song--

an epiphany--

  this post, causes me to notice that even the term, "emergency", seems to be about this very system...if the the root word of "emergency" is, merge...i feel the phrase "we have a mergence" , or "it's a mergence" being spoken by runners, sent to "the cross-roads", or another location, to summon the "surveyor", may have been the inspiration for the modern word "emergency"...e-mergence-y( y, being a symbol for a merge in a road, one we still use in the states, or "why"?? "what-the-devil"??)...the symbol being used above an e-r entrance in america(+), looks to be a picture of "the cross-roads", or perhaps an "english cross"(see my "stonehenge/easter-island" post)...in any case, a "mergence" was definitely a good reason to get exited, as a road plotted slightly "off-course", would have drastic consequences, as all the efforts made to get up to the point that the error was discovered, were possibly for naught...

  and so, best wishes to her majesty on this day, and all her interests on the "other side of the pond"(or wherever else they may lie)...john kruschke--

--the secret about "the secret"--

  i stumbled upon a bit of a "wives-tale", being considered as a serious scientific theory today( possibly), i have not read the book to date...but, from a skimming of the cover, i believe the concept was this...

  "the secret"--

   if a person "thinks positive", good things will happen for them, and life will naturally "go their way", as positive thinking generates "positive out-comes"...in all cases, and so, those experiencing misfortune, are "thinking negative", and hence, are bringing forth the ill-will of destiny( by their own actions/thoughts)...really??...

my spin on the deal--

  if we try to apply this notion in a scientific setting, to prove, or debunk the concept( my contention), the person that derived the theory, might, subject a person being studied to negative stimuli( to get them to think negative)...this, in it's self, is the end of the theory, entirely( for me)...as i feel that, any scientist that came up with a study this harsh on a subject( person/other), being studied, is clearly thinking negative himself...also, exposing the person to negative stimuli, to get them to think negative, means that the person was thinking "positively", prior to being studied...and, having negative stimuli dumped all over you, is not a positive result( of positive thinking)...at all...

the flip side--

  i feel that a great way to study "the other side" of the theory( does a person whom thinks positively have positive results??), would be to give the clip-board to the "lab-rat" being tested, and toss the scientist on the "little wheel" that goes "round-and-round", for awhile...perhaps the new person holding the clip-board, will conclude, that "positive thinking" is turning the wheel, and a light-bulb, powered by a little generator, that is attached to the wheel that the scientist is running on, can be fashioned( so that correlations about "positive thinking", and the "expected output"... in watts, might then be gained??...), the experiment could go until the bulb burns out...unless the lab rat ordered more( positive thinking??)--

 the silver lining--

  being a complete jerk, might not yield the best results either...although "Scrooge", in the "Dickens tale" about him, was a bit of a bother...i doubt he could have saved as much money as was needed to save "tiny-tim" in the story, if he had not been so stingy beforehand( Scrooge, is a personal hero, for this aspect of his character)...Scrooge, discovers positive thinking can enhance a person's abilities to deal with others, and increase options, or the probability of them being presented...increased probability, not assuring them, and he knew a toughness was needed to hold them, when they arrived( in the many years past, and still today, the weak have held few things of high value, for long...despite our best efforts, though law)--

  the skinny(for me)--

    dare to think positive, even if the world is coming down around your ears...this seems to be the "secret", of serious value here, it may help, it may not...but you will feel better about the outcomes that arrive--

best wishes, john kruschke--